TIL: Today I Learned

[Timsup2nothin]

There's also the failure to distinguish cash and wealth. So let's say that you do NOT have a moderately well stocked kitchen, and you go out and buy a pound of bacon, a dozen eggs, and a sack of potatoes. Your net worth, at that point, is unchanged. The making of the breakfast platter is still only gonna be two bucks in costs. You may not have cash, but you have bacon, potatoes, and eggs that you could in fact sell to recoup the rest.

 

[Lexicus]

This whole tangent could have been avoided by simply answering Owen's initial question with "it would require me to get up and do stuff, which is a dealbreaker"

 

[Synobun]

No, you just have to commit to keeping a kitchen moderately well stocked with basic stuff. That's not such an uncommon practice as to justify "I certainly can't do THAT."

I just wanna eat at Denny's, man.

 

[civvver]

Original grand slam is two pancakes, two bacon strips, two sausage links, two eggs. My local dennys shows $7.19.
My local grocery store shows:
Eggs, 12 for $2 = 16 cents x 2
Bacon 1 pound is $6, 20 slices = 30 cents x 2
Sausage link 14 for $3.19 = ~23 cents x 2
Pancake mix $2.50 for 15 servings, I am fairly certain a serving is two pancakes, but I'm going to double it cus dennys pancakes are huge = 16 cents x 2
So yes, even adding some butter and syrup you can make your own grand slam for around $2. Breakfast food is cheap!

 

[Synobun]

Dang dude, you've got some cheap bacon. 20 slices would easily be double that here.

 

[Lexicus]

Dang dude, you've got some cheap bacon. 20 slices would easily be double that here.

Yeah, but your local Denny's probably wouldn't be so cheap either.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Dang dude, you've got some cheap bacon. 20 slices would easily be double that here.

Wait, what are you saying? Are you saying bacon is twelve bucks a pound? Or are you saying Canadians cut their bacon so freakin' thick that a pound only makes ten slices?

 

[Synobun]

Yeah, but your local Denny's probably wouldn't be so cheap either.

$11.29 CAD, so converts to $8.72 USD.

Wait, what are you saying? Are you saying bacon is twelve bucks a pound? Or are you saying Canadians cut their bacon so freakin' thick that a pound only makes ten slices?

$7.50 per 375g which is 8 slices here.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

$7.50 per 375g which is 8 slices here.

So, yeah, ten slices per pound. Are you people slicing your bacon with freaking hatchets?

 

[civvver]

Oscar meyer bacon, 1 lb, it says 10 servings of 2 slices on it. On sale for $6 at mejier.

https://www.meijer.com/product/groc...t2/t2-9973/t3/t3-190/t4/t4-463/4470001988.uts

So, yeah, ten slices per pound. Are you people slicing your bacon with freaking hatchets?

Maybe it's canadian bacon? Which americans call ham.

 

[sophie]

$7.50 per 375g which is 8 slices here.

Where in the damn hell are you getting your bacon? Have you tried the butcher's?

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Maybe it's canadian bacon? Which americans call ham.

He probably means normal bacon, which is ridiculously expensive. Ham even more so. 200 grams of ham will run you about $5 CAD or so if you go to the deli. A good ham for roasting can cost as much as $65 CAD.

BTW, there is no such thing as "Canadian" bacon. At least up here. It's either bacon or ham.

 

[Synobun]

Where in the damn hell are you getting your bacon? Have you tried the butcher's?

The grocery store.

https://www.saveonfoods.com/pd/Western-Family/Regular-Sliced-Bacon/375-g/062639288556/

 

[Zkribbler]

Are we talking Canadian bacon or USAian bacon? They are two different things.

BTW: Denny's for the skillet breakfast.
BTW2: No Dennys in the Philippines.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

He probably means normal bacon, which is ridiculously expensive. Ham even more so. 200 grams of ham will run you about $5 CAD or so if you go to the deli. A good ham for roasting can cost as much as $65 CAD.

BTW, there is no such thing as "Canadian" bacon. At least up here. It's either bacon or ham.

Normal bacon isn't eight slices to 375 grams. 375 grams is about eight tenths of a pound, and as Civver pointed out, Oscar Meyer packaged bacon (and how much more 'normal' does it get?) is twenty slices per pound.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Sysnsensa's right though, the last "pound" of bacon that I bought was approximately 10 slices. Bacon here seems to be a little thicker than yours I would suspect.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Sysnsensa's right though, the last "pound" of bacon that I bought was approximately 10 slices. Bacon here seems to be a little thicker than yours I would suspect.

That's why I asked. Your bacon, by weight, is not all that much more expensive than ours. But by the slice it is, as it should be.

 

[Synobun]

They're thick while raw but become the same size as any other slice of bacon when cooked. I haven't noticed a particular size difference between cooked bacon in Canada and the US.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

BTW, there is no such thing as "Canadian" bacon. At least up here. It's either bacon or ham.

After a quick search it seems like the kind of bacon most common in Britain is close to what is known as Canadian bacon to the Americans.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

They're thick while raw but become the same size as any other slice of bacon when cooked. I haven't noticed a particular size difference between cooked bacon in Canada and the US.

If you take a weight of bacon and cut it in ten slices, and I take the same weight of bacon and cut it into twenty slices, and when we cook the slices they come out the same, either I am doing something miraculous or you are doing something wrong. Since I'm always doubtful that I am doing something miraculous I can only guess that Canadians are sending half their bacon up in smoke.

After a quick search it seems like the kind of bacon most common in Britain is close to what is known as Canadian bacon to the Americans.

The store I shop at has what they call "English cut" bacon. It appears that it is actually sliced on a 90 degree angle to how bacon is "normally" sliced.